Latest News From Swine Health Information Center

In the latestl report to the Swine Health Information Center, Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project (MSHMP) leader Cesar Corzo of the University of Minnesota details project outcomes for its three primary objectives.

Research provides critical information and resources to help pork producers as they face emerging disease challenges in their swine herds. Here's a look at the RFP Research Priorities as included in SHIC’s Plan of Work.

While the 2023 Progress Report provides a review of the Swine Health Information Center’s activities and accomplishments, the 2024 Plan of Work outlines projects to address its strategic priorities in the new year.

The Swine Health Information Center’s Standardized Outbreak Investigation Program is now available online. It was introduced as a Word-based form to conduct outbreak investigations. Here's what you need to know.

Infectious diseases such as PED, PRRS and influenza can be transmitted through contaminated airborne particles. A variety of industries use technologies to control aerosolized emissions. An extensive review is now out.

Visual inspection is insufficient to ensure cleanliness and eliminate disease transmission risk due to microscopic viruses and bacteria. Here's what could help.

Emerging infectious diseases are a constant threat to the swine industry. Here's how SHIC is helping protect and mitigate emerging disease risks to the North American swine population.

A new study provides valuable insights into the diagnosis and prevalence of porcine circovirus type 3 in reproductive failure and surveillance cases submitted to the ISU-VDL as well as the synergism of PCV3.

What's TEROW and why does it matter to you? The Early Regional Occurrence Warning project represents additional infrastructure to respond to emerging diseases and highlights efforts towards preparedness,

SHIC’s research priority is to understand the potential breadth of tongue tips as a sample type for monitoring emerging diseases. Here's why.

Here's a look at a recent report on the U.S. susceptibility to JEV related to the availability of competent mosquito vector species, susceptible maintenance avian hosts, as well as intensive travel and trade activities.

Two new board members began their service with SHIC, including Joseph Dykhuis, a Michigan pork producer representing the NPPC on the SHIC Board, and Pete Thomas, DVM, with Iowa Select Farms, in an at-large position.

From early 2017 to early 2019, Tom Petznick, DVM, knew his client’s 4500-head farrow-to-wean swine herd had a new disease not previously seen by him or his colleagues. Here's how diagnostic testing helped.

This information-sharing website will be a CEID-maintained repository of pertinent JEV information available to anyone interested in JEV infectious disease dynamics. 

Following detection of African swine fever in the Caribbean in 2021, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service further increased efforts to protect U.S. swine from the transboundary disease.

A review of technologies that remove or/and inactivate airborne pathogens found that air filtration, solely consisting of fibrous filters, is currently the only established and implemented system on swine farms.

How can the Swine Health Information Center's Rapid Response Program help your farm in a time of crisis?

The Swine Health Information Center Board of Directors voted to continue funding the Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report in its October board meeting.

Following a vaccination trial performed by the Vietnam Department of Animal Health on two farms, officials said 20 localities have now deployed vaccinations with 21,000+ doses following all appropriate guidelines. 

Rapid and reliable detection of African swine fever virus infected pigs is critical for successful control. In a SHIC study in Vietnam, three pen-side tests for ASFV detection were evaluated. Here are the results.

A new SHIC-funded report is out revealing data that is contributing to an ongoing study to determine an applicable U.S. case definition of porcine circovirus type 3.

The University of Minnesota is identifying existing and emerging technologies across different industries for their ability to contain bioaerosols in the face of swine disease outbreaks. Here's a look at some options.

The Domestic Swine Disease Reporting System will add porcine circovirus type 2 to its list of endemic and emerging diseases to watch in the U.S. swine herd.

The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) announced Megan Niederwerder, DVM, PhD, as new associate director. K-State faculty member and researcher will begin new duties on April 1.

Scientifically sound data based on the use of infectious agents and representative conditions are now available to inform the pork industry on how to store feed and feed ingredients to minimize risk of disease.

The Swine Health Information Center is hiring an associate director. Here are the details.

Experts weigh in on the frequently asked questions about international shipping of soy and share best practices for importation of soy products in an effort to lower risk of foreign animal disease introduction.

The National Pork Board announced an additional $15 million investment of Pork Checkoff funds in the Swine Health Information Center, extending funding for the center through 2027.

Just in time to prevent and prepare for seasonal PRRS outbreaks, a team led by North Carolina State developed and calibrated a mathematical model for transmission of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

The Swine Disease Reporting System initiative now includes more than 950,000 unique submissions tested by PCR for the five U.S. porcine endemic agents. Here's an update.

Introduction of foreign animal disease viruses in domestic feed manufacturing facilities has the potential to unknowingly disseminate viruses. Researchers are studying how to best decontaminate facilities, SHIC says.

Researchers developed a quantitative risk assessment model to estimate the probability that one or more corn or soybean meal ocean vessels contaminated with ASF virus would be imported into the U.S. annually.

Ohio’s Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory will now contribute data to the Swine Disease Reporting System to enhance capabilities as a surveillance tool and for early detection of pathogens of economic consequence.

Reports of difficult cases of colibacillosis that have been associated with the F-18 fimbrial antigen and leading to gut edema disease have been increasing. Here's what the experts are saying.

Pork industry groups applaud USDA's effort to establish additional requirements for dogs imported into the U.S. for resale from countries where ASF exists.

Research continues in Vietnam on ELISA tests for African swine fever, made possible by a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service grant.

A dead pig was submitted for diagnostic testing in 2020. Among the diseases found, canine parvovirus 2 was identified. Swine Health Information Center is studying spillover of the virus from the canine species to swine.

Updated fact sheets on porcine teschovirus (PTV) and Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) have been posted in the Swine Health Information Center Swine Disease Fact Sheet Library. Here's what you need to know.

Metagenomics sequencing identified a new virus in the genus of Morbillivirus at the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Lab. The virus was discovered in 22 porcine fetuses from six litters originating in Mexico.

To boost information about emerging infectious diseases, the Swine Health Information Center has executed a MOU with the University of Georgia Research Foundation. Here's why this will benefit the swine industry.

In 2019, a new variant of porcine sapovirus infection was identified in the U.S. on a farm reporting piglet diarrhea issues for two years. Here's a look at SHIC's report on a study to better understand this pathogen.

Pseudorabies virus is ranked fourth in the SHIC Swine Disease Matrix due to the potential for the introduction of highly pathogenic PRV into the U.S. from Asia - an event which would have a major impact on pork exports.

South Dakota State University researchers will explore the PPV2 infection plays in important diseases such as pneumonia, immune deficiency, reproductive failure and lameness, all causes of lost productivity.

In response to a recent increase in submissions related to swine lameness at veterinary diagnostic labs in Iowa and Minnesota, SHIC and AASV are sponsoring another in a series of webinars on Oct. 13.

SHIC is calling for proposals to develop methods to improve the detection of low levels of nucleic acid in oral fluids through enhancements to sample pre-extraction treatment or through improved extraction methods.

Knowing how ASF is transmitted has helped practitioners in China institute a test-and-removal strategy for effectively managing ASF spread. Swine veterinarians Joe Connor and Keith Erlandson share their perspectives.

A Swine Health Information Center study on PCV3 looks at associations between the presence of PCV3 and its viral load, and specific lesions and clinical conditions.

Diagnostic testing of swine oral fluid samples has proven to be an effective and reliable method for the surveillance of endemic infectious diseases. Can it help FMDV-infected countries?

Jeremy Pittman, DVM, has joined the Swine Health Information Center Board of Directors to put his experience, training, and interests to further use for the benefit of the swine industry.

Investigators also found participating breeding stock companies have robust biosecurity procedures for both import/exports due to their investment in maintaining the health status of these pigs.